{"id":135518,"date":"2020-12-17T02:44:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T23:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-china-uses-internet-trolls-to-help-cover-up-its-atrocities\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T02:44:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T23:44:39","slug":"how-china-uses-internet-trolls-to-help-cover-up-its-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-china-uses-internet-trolls-to-help-cover-up-its-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"#How China uses Internet trolls to help cover up its atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How China uses Internet trolls to help cover up its atrocities<\/strong>”
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The greatest benefit to Big Tech\u2019s otherwise dubious influence over our lives is that it\u2019s impossible for the world\u2019s human-rights violators to hide their crimes. Information that years ago would have been filtered by official, sanitized sources now flows from anyone with the guts to tweet about it.<\/p>\n

But social media<\/a>\u2019s power to disseminate ideas means the tyrants themselves are better equipped than ever to obfuscate, lie and troll their way out of crises \u2014 capitalizing on the moral confusion and greed of the modern West.<\/p>\n

Last December, freedom fighters a world away were busy tweeting about the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s aggression in Hong Kong. Much to the chagrin of party bosses in Beijing, guerrilla coverage of mass protests spread rapidly, prompting digital activists worldwide to condemn the CCP\u2019s latest horror show.<\/p>\n

Civil-society groups seized the moment to spotlight the CCP\u2019s \u00adcolonialism in Tibet and Inner Mongolia, the regime\u2019s cruelty \u00adtoward Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang and the horrifying plight of Falun Gong practitioners. Shock turned into revulsion that manifested in demands for change. It was a shining moment of international unity that vowed an end to totalitarianism in Asia.<\/p>\n

Today, hundreds of dissenters, \u00adincluding Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong and Jimmy Lai, sit in jail for the sin of criticizing their government. Tibetan language, culture and religion are so repressed that more than 150 Tibetans have self-immolated since 2009. Communist officials terrorize Uighurs under the guise of cultural re-education, locking dissenters in concentration camps and perpetrating mass violence on a scale that has prompted many lawmakers like me to support legislation \u00adlabeling the \u00adviolence in Xinjiang a genocide.<\/p>\n

Yet fashionable concern soon gave way to a parade of app<\/a>alling statements from world leaders, multinational corporations and \u00adcelebrities desperate to preserve their interests in China\u2019s economy. Beijing breathed a sigh of relief and ramped up its own disinformation campaign \u2014 about the origins of COVID-19 and the Hong Kong crisis \u2014 by taking a page from the freedom fighters\u2019 playbook.<\/p>\n

Between March and September, the CCP violated its own ban against Twitter and amassed nearly 1.5 million followers stretched across dozens of official accounts. Using a mix of typical \u00adviral content, weird propaganda and COVID-19 misinformation to attract \u00adattention, diplomats and other \u00adpolitical leaders used their mainstream clout to lob insults at Western leaders and dismiss the global outcry over Beijing\u2019s atrocities as the product of \u201cracism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beijing\u2019s propaganda doesn\u2019t general<\/a>ly pass even a minimal smell test, of course. Its play at \u201cwolf-warrior diplomacy,\u201d named after a patriotic film franchise, is a trollish p.r. campaign that relies on sheer numbers and whataboutism to \u00adintimidate critics.<\/p>\n

The Chinese diplomats have even learned to tap into the rhetoric of wokeness. And sadly, it\u2019s working. China\u2019s \u201cwolf warriors\u201d can sink their teeth into the \u00adimpressionable, the contrarian and, terrifyingly, the complicit among Western influencers and audiences.<\/p>\n

The CCP is counting on our fear of retaliation, not to mention the undying tendency of our own elites to first blame America and the West, to mislead us.<\/p>\n

We have no excuse for ignoring reality, however. If you need proof, it\u2019s sitting in your hand. Google phrases like \u201cUighur forced sterilization\u201d and \u201cMongol ethnic assimilation,\u201d then brace yourself.<\/p>\n

Millions of victims of Xi Jinping\u2019s \u201cChina Dream\u201d \u2014 a nightmarish blend of ideological conformity and behavior controls \u2014 regularly risk their lives speaking truth to power. Meanwhile, in the safe confines of the West, powerhouse personalities and companies agonize over the financial risks of criticizing Beijing.<\/p>\n

In 50 or 100 years, when historians ask how such things could have happened, I hope someone invokes the cowardice inherent in that cost-benefit analysis as the \u00adanswer to their question.<\/p>\n

Marsha Blackburn (R) represents Tennessee in the US Senate.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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